The village, 17 miles from Edinburgh, is in unsullied countryside. This two-bedroom cottage has been thoroughly renovated inside. There’s a smart new kitchen and bathroom. Upstairs in the eaves the family room and home office could be used for further sleeping quarters. There’s an integral garage currently used as a utility room and planning consent allows for an extension of the kitchen.
CKD Galbraith, 0131 240 6960
Photograph: CKD Galraith
This two-bedroom cottage has been run as a holiday let and is being sold fully furnished. You may not share the tastes of the previous owners, but you can move straight in without so much as a removal van. One of the largest parishes in Devon, Woodbury encompasses an area of outstanding natural beauty, but is minutes by road from Exeter. The cottage is smartly done out with wooden floors downstairs and a Shaker-style kitchen that opens on to a decked garden.
Wilkinson Grant, 01392 875000 Photograph: Wilkinson Grant
Your £250,000 gets you the exquisite Georgian wing of manor house amounting to five bedrooms, two grand receptions and a variety of pantry and laundry rooms. This portion of the estate gets 1.4 acres of the original grounds. The Victorian half is being sold separately and there are also two outbuildings for sale with planning permission for conversion so you are likely to end up with a community of neighbours.
Carter Jonas, 01539 722592 Photograph: Carter Jonas
The fact that this is in London’s stockbroker belt, means £250,000 gets you only get one bedroom (albeit a sizeable en suite). The cottage is one of a string of former almshouses in the village high street. What it lacks in size it makes up for in appeal with mullioned windows, beamed ceilings and a gas-fired stove in the sitting room. A dining area opens off the kitchen and there’s a brick storeroom across the cobbled courtyard.
Strutt & Parker, 01732 459900 Photograph: Strutt & Parker
This gated development has direct access to the 2km beach and promenade overlooking Gibraltar. The 36 flats, built on one of the last seafront plots on the coast, are distributed among a series of low-rise buildings and all have sea views, marble finishings, an underground car space and either a garden or sun terrace. Residents will share a pool set in communal gardens. Prices start at €300,000 for two-bedrooms, but they won’t be ready until July next year.
Taylor Wimpey, 08000 121 020 Photograph: Taylor Wimpey
